Good Books to read?

Flea21212 · Post by **Flea21212** » 8/18/2003, 9:43 pm

Recently I've decided to start reading a bit. It seems like I'm always so busy that it's just nice to sit down once in a while and read. Anyways I just got done reading "The Catcher In The Rye" which I thought was an OK book.

Does anyone know any books that aren't too difficult to read, but are very good or have good plots?

Ignignokt · Post by **Ignignokt** » 8/18/2003, 9:46 pm

nelison · Post by **nelison** » 8/18/2003, 9:53 pm

This is in the wrong thread...

Does it hurt to look where you should be making certain topics?

wanan · Post by **wanan** » 8/18/2003, 9:55 pm

I just bought 1984 and The Age of Spiritual Machines. I thought they'd go good together.

Other good books: Farenheit 451, Slaughterhouse Five. If you like SNL "Live From New York" is a good read. It's compiled completly of interviews. That's all that come to mind right now, I'm too tired to think.

nelison · Post by **nelison** » 8/18/2003, 10:06 pm

thanks mod ppl

anyways...

1984, Animal Farm, Cats Cradle, No Great Mischief (Alistair Macleod), On The Road...

its4am_isanybodyhome · Post by **its4am_isanybodyhome** » 8/18/2003, 10:08 pm

Havenstar.

well, i liked it.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 8/18/2003, 10:14 pm

I haven't read any really "good" books in a long time. I don't have alot of time during school so I usually just read entertaining ones. I'm almost done with Mary Higgins Clark's Second Time Around. I love all her books. I'm about to start the fourth book in Dean Hugh's second series. I doubt anyone here would be interested in those though. The first series, Children of the Promise, is really good. He's a mormon author, but it's not really preachy. It takes place during WWII and traces what happens to a mormon family from Salt Lake. They are my favorite.

One of my favorite books of all time is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 8/18/2003, 10:45 pm

Ahem. The previously mentioned books are good books, I've read most of them, but they don't compare to:

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

Honestly, if you've ever felt like an outcast or loser, this book is for you. Trust me on this, read the book. You shant be disappointed.

Post by **saman** » 8/18/2003, 10:53 pm

If you're a biology fan you should read "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear. It's a good book, and I'm really not a big fan of biology.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 8/18/2003, 11:00 pm

Alan, I'm going to get that book tomorrow when I go to the library. Watch my library not have it.

teelow · Post by **teelow** » 8/18/2003, 11:03 pm

Oh, I read "timeline" By Michael Crichton.
He wrote books like, Jurassic Park, congo, Sphere ETC...

And this book too will be made into a movie, and damn was it a good book.

Holy crap. It was hard to put down. :drool:

Dabekk · Post by **Dabekk** » 8/18/2003, 11:13 pm

'flowers for algernon' excellent book and an easy read about a mentally retarded man who through science becomes a genius. make sure you get the novel though and not the short story.

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 8/18/2003, 11:15 pm

Che guevara's guide to guerilla warfare.
The fall of the Duke of Duval.

these are the only two books i'll ever read....books are evil.

bort8 · Post by **bort8** » 8/18/2003, 11:27 pm

'the corrections' by jonathan franzen is what im reading now, and its excellent

anything by nick hornby is awesome: high fidelty, about a boy, how to be good, fever pitch
american psycho and rules of attraction by bret easton ellis are also really good, though quite graphic (especially psycho)

teelow · Post by **teelow** » 8/18/2003, 11:42 pm

Dabekk wrote:'flowers for algernon' excellent book and an easy read about a mentally retarded man who through science becomes a genius. make sure you get the novel though and not the short story.

I read that too! It wasn't bad, wasn't super amazing though.

How big is the actual novel? (just in case I read the SS)

One-Eye · Post by **One-Eye** » 8/18/2003, 11:47 pm

Robert Louis Stevenson's <i>Treasure Island</i>, all the way. Perfect summer reading.

I'm now reading Robert Graves' <i>I, Claudius</i>, which is also very, very good. :nod:

Post by **saman** » 8/18/2003, 11:49 pm

Dabekk wrote:'flowers for algernon' excellent book and an easy read about a mentally retarded man who through science becomes a genius. make sure you get the novel though and not the short story.

i read that in grade 9, i think. cried like a baby at the end.

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 8/18/2003, 11:52 pm

^ wuss.

Post by **saman** » 8/19/2003, 12:00 am

it was sad!

i am not a wuss!

okay, so i am. but still. it was sad!

Ignignokt · Post by **Ignignokt** » 8/19/2003, 12:17 am

Leviathan...

not easy reading by any measure but very good

the unbearable likeness of being
love in the time of cholera

and

Cash by Johnny Cash